The back story to President Trump’s feud with the CIA dates back to the 1970s when CIA director William Colby navigated the aftermath of Watergate. That’s when the House and Senate Intelligence Committee’s were created, as well as the controversial Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. Colby’s efforts to rehabilitate the CIA were not popular in the...
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Watergate Burglar Sought Information on a Left Wing Mole Who Didn’t Exist
James McCord, the Watergate burglar who died two years ago, told his family he had a political motive for participating in the botched break-in that lead to the scandal that brought down President Richard Nixon. McCord claimed he sought to gather intelligence on an alleged antiwar militant working in the headquarters of the Democratic National...
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Declassified records show extent of CIA’s involvement in efforts to discredit Daniel Ellsberg
During the Watergate scandal, the CIA distanced itself from the burglars arrested at the Democratic National Committee but a newly declassified records, obtain by MuckRock, reveals just how much the agency supported President Nixon’s dirty tricksters. A previously classified document that the Central Intelligence Agency provided to Congress during the investigation of the Watergate affair shows that...